Questions tagged [speedfan]
SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips.
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SpeedFan suddenly stops being able to detect controllers and sensors mid game
so I'm playing games on my PC and I have some fan control setup using SpeedFan for my PWM fans which usually works really nice. However, the other day my game wasn't running so smoothly and I saw that ...
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Fans not working on Asus X555LJ
as of yesterday or so my laptop's fans stopped working with no apparent reason.
This is what appears on SpeedFan:
Open Hardware Monitor:
I also have an error on SpeedFan that I don't know the ...
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IPMITOOL commands on dell 12th generation controlling the fans
Would be possible to control a particular fan speed in a dell chassis 12th generation? I cannot figure how to do it, just all at once, but let's say I need to lower or increase the Fan5 speed, how do ...
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Laptop Windows 10 noisy fan constantly running
I have been having an issue with my Laptop fan constantly running @ high speed creating an unbearable noise that is making it hard to work.
My processor is almost at idle when this happens only ...
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Laptop fan turns off and on while doing nothing
So I brought a laptop couple of months ago. And it was functioning fine. however, I noticed the fan just got a little bit louder. Basically you can hear it in a quite room, when I first bought I ...
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Make old icon disappear from system tray automatically after SpeedFan restarts
@echo off
taskkill /F /T /IM speedfan.exe
start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\SpeedFan\speedfan.exe"
cls
exit
I use the above commands in a .bat file to restart SpeedFan automatically each time after ...
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How can I control my fans with SpeedFan? Doesn't show anything
I have a problem. My laptop gets really hot every time... Last time it was around 120 degrees. I need to control my fans with SpeedFan. But the problem is that my laptop doesn't see the fans.
My ...
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SpeedFan not detecting fans
SpeedFan 4.52 is not detecting any of my system fans. Am I doing something wrong? Is my motherboard not supported?
Motherboard: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z170-Gaming-K3-rev-10#ov
Fans: ...
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How can I set the laptop fan speed to 100% manually?
I would like to know if there is a way to set my laptop fan speed to 100%. I want something that I can assign a key to, so when I press combination of keys my fan speed will boost to 100% and pressing ...
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Unable to change fan speed on Acer laptop
My laptop is Acer Swift SFX14-41G, which can use combination Fn+F to change fan speed. But after I reinstall Windows 10 from Microsoft (not use reset this PC) I am unable to change the fan speed.
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Utility to manipulate speed of fan in Windows 7
I know Speedfan does monitor the CPU temperature, but it doesn't have the option to increase the speed manually. I used to have a programme in MAC OS which does that, but is there one for windows 7?
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Is a "System Temperature" of 51 degC (123 degF) normal / OK?
My reported System Temperature (when idle) is considerably higher than all other reported temps on my (new) machine. When Sys Temp is 51C, other reported temps are:
GPU is 36C
CPU is 27C
HD0(SSD) is ...
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Laptop fan speed with strange behaviour
I have had a N550JV Asus laptop for more than 6 years. Recently I noticed the fan speed noise increase without any reason, the CPU activity is normal and the system has been checked for any probable ...
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is the speed of the second fan normal?
I am using SpeedFan to see the fan speed.
My laptop is HP Pavilion - 14-ce3009ne.
The speed of the second fan does not look normal. it does not exceed 100 rpm. If this normal?
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What is considered temperature too high for a Core2Duo CPU on a notebook computer?
So I took the advice of installing SpeedFan (also because download.com has Editor's recommendation), and see that the temperature of my notebook's CPU (Intel Core2Duo) is about 60C and jumps up to ...
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Should I be concerned about this voltage reading (via SpeedFan)?
Been having computer issues. (My computer has been freezing the past couple of days, but in a rather odd manner: once it starts, each program freezes after a couple of seconds of being used. Note that ...
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CPU fan spins crazy all the time (CPU temp is 35 °C)
I have a Toshiba Satellite u300 (old) laptop. As soon as I turn it on, its fan is going full blown all the time regardless of CPU usage. It's very strange and uncomfortable because of its noise.
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Which SMART settings to watch for in SpeedFan?
Unless there's a better solution, I'd like to use SpeedFan to watch hard disks on a host.
However, it offers quite a lot of settings in its Configure > Events > If section, such as Raw Read Error ...
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Interpreting sensor names
Here is the output from the sensors command on my Late 2012 MacMini 6,2 running Linux. I am unable to find out what each code means. What parameter do each of these code represent?
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Uncontrollable CPU Fan in Ubuntu and UEFI firmware
The speed of my CPU fan it's out of control, going to the fastest speed and lowest without any reason.
I have tried the following without success:
Changing fan speed in UEFI settings and setting ...
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How to measure/interpret temperature of computer and what should it be at?
I have installed SpeedFan but don't fully understand how to use it. Here is a read out of what I get...
I'm guessing the fire icon means the unit is too hot? It's unfortunate the CPU heat sink was ...
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How to reduce chassis fan speed with software?
I have replaced an old broken motherboard in a Dell Inspiron (slimline chassis) with a Asus P5KLM-AM motherboard. Now the chassis fan runs at full speed (3750 RPM) at all times, which is very loud.
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Windows Task Scheduler, run task if task isn't running?
How do I ensure a task is running all the time?
I use speedfan to control my fans and on occasion it crashes or it needs to be restarted. If I manually quit speedfan because it isn't working ...
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Is it possible to override fan control settings directly through REGEDIT?
I have a Dell Latitude e6420 and the fan noise is driving me crazy. I took the entire fan assembly apart and it is clean as a whistle, but still making obnoxiously loud noise regularly.
I believe ...
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New laptop fan won't compensate for heat increase
I recently replaced my laptop fan because it was rattling, but the new fan does not seem to accelerate when I'm in game or doing any other power hungry tasks. My laptop is a MSI GE60. This makes the ...
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Help me understand SpeedFan settings
My computer fans speed up and down whenever my cpu use twitches. The varying sound of the fans is very annoying so I installed SpeedFan to try to fix this.
I have fiddled with the SpeedFan settings ...
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Do I need a second (non-CPU) fan in my system?
I have a mini-tower desktop PC containing (primarily) a MicroATX motherboard, 2 HDDs (2TB AND 3TB), one SSD, and one non-stock CPU fan (Arctic Cooler 11 LP). I've always felt this was sufficient, but ...
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Controlling fan speed with Windows without additional programs
This is clearly a duplicate of at least five question with almost the same title of mine. However I tried all the free programs in the respective answers and none of them worked for me. For this ...
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SpeedFan shows ridiculous numbers for Temp2 and Temp3
I have the Dell XPS 15 (9550). I have recently noticed that my fans seem to be running constantly, so I ran SpeedFan to see if I could figure out why.
Can anybody explain what these numbers mean, and ...
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SpeedFan cannot find my fan
My laptop (SONY VAIO VGN-CR390) is getting hot recently and the fan doesn't seem to work at high speed. I installed SpeedFan and it reads my CPU temperature @60C+ consistently. However, it cannot find ...
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How can I make my computer fans less noisey
I got this PC from overclockers:
"Titan Envy M DC" Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.4GHz Overclocked Nvidia GeForce Gaming PC
MSI GeForce GTX 760 OC Gaming Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
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Are the temperature and fan speed normal in my laptop?
My laptop is HP Pavilion DV6-6b51ea. The laptop is around 5 years 10 months old.
Configuration:
Intel Core i5 2430M 2.40 GHz
6 GB RAM
x64 based processor
ATI Radeon HD 6490M gpu
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How to spin up the fan on hp presario cq without disabling the keyboard and mousepad?
This is the model of the laptop - cq56-120sq
Currently the only way for me to max out the fan to 100% is partially running the bios update obtainable from the hp support page - unfortunately this ...
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What does SpeedFan's 'Automatic fan speed' option do?
What does Speedfan's Automatic fan speed option do?
I don't notice any immediately difference when it's checked or unchecked. Does unchecking it mean I can manually change the speed of my fan?
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GPU temperature sensor dropping randomly
I have an AMD Radeon HD 6900 series graphics card, when not playing games the temperature will be reading anywhere from around 40c - 50c.
But when playing games, the correct reading of the ...
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very noisy fan on my hp pavilion dm4 beats edition
As the title shows, the fan is very noisy. I don't remember since when but it's always running at its high speed and it's disturbing when i am in class.
I tried to clean the fan, upgrade BIOS, ...
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Fan speed still at 850 RPM at 0% speed
I have SpeedFan 4.49 installed with my goal to make my tower as silent as possible.
My CPU is the Intel i5 2500k and even at 0% in SpeedFan, I still have 850 RPM.
For normal office work I think this ...
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SpeedFan keeps my computer from hibernating
I want to do a batch script that will hibernate my PC everyday at 2AM. The script itself is working but the thing is that SpeedFan, a fan speed controller software keeps my computer from hibernating. ...
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Why can't I control the speed of my CPU fan?
I bought a new computer with an ASRock H61M motherboard and XILENCE ICEBREAKER 64 Pro PWM CPU FAN. The problem is that I can't control the speed of the FAN.
I tried settings in the BIOS and with ...
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Control fans speed relative to higher temperature
Hi guys:)I want to control my fans' speed relative to the higher temperature that a component has in the pc.Is it possible to do?Is it a good idea?
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Crazy CPU fan runs at ~5500rpm while temp is OK
A single picture is worth a thousand words:
AMD FX-4300 is my CPU, Windows 7 is my OS, my Motherboard is a ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0.
Why are the RPM at such a high level?
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Will These Temps Cause System Damage
I have a AMD FX8350 4.00GHZ processor and speedfan shows these as my temps. Temp1 shows a flame beside it, but I know those are "default" settings. All I am doing is using Handbrake to convert an ....
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Chrome & Fan Speed
I'm on Windows 7 on my Mac via Bootcamp... I notice that the fan goes from 3000 RPM to 5000-6000 RPM when Chrome is running and most of the time it's doing nothing. The CPU in the task manager for ...
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Speedfan won't automatically regulate
I used to have Speedfan regulating my fan speed automatically, but ever since I've reformatted, I can't get this to work. I've done the following:
In Temperatures, I have only CPU checked with CPU ...
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Control fan speed under linux without nvidia drivers
I have quemu-kvm configuration like this - IGP on host (linux) and Nvidia on guest (windows). I blacklist nvidia drivers under linux (arch dist.).
Is there a way to set GPU fan speed under linux (it'...
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Unable to control one fan with SpeedFan
In my pc, I have 4 fans: CPU, Chassis 1, 2, and 3. I can control all of the fans, except Chassis 1. However, all of the Chassis fans are identical. So my question is, why am I unable to control fan 1? ...
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Arch Linux: Cannot control fan speed
I just installed arch linux on my laptop and I noticed that my fans are full speed all the time so I tried to fix that.
I followed the wiki guide here but I am stuck because everytime I run sensors I ...
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Macbook Mid2014 El Capitan Fan stop working from time to time?
I did a fresh installation with thumb drive. The fan works fine on restart, but suddenly stops after a while. I tried resetting SCM but not working.
I also tried to use scmFanControl, not working as ...
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How to stop fan from revving?
My colleague is using a Fujitsu Esprimo E900 (VFY:E0900PXG11NL) desktop PC that revs its fan every couple of minutes when a CPU core hits 70 degrees Celsius according to SpeedFan 4.51. Enabling "...
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My CPU fan is running very high speed even with less cpu usage
Everything was ok yesterday , but now i have seen that my CPU fan is running constantly at very high speed.
I tried restarting it. Before when i turn on the PC then fan used to run very high speed ...
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